Note 181 — Lecture IV. GREEK AND CHRISTIAN RHETORIC.
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The inscription of one of the statues which are mentioned by Philostratus, V. S. 1. 23, 2, as having been erected to Lollianus at Athens, was found a few years ago near the Propylæa: Dittenberger, C. I. A. vol. iii. No. 625: see also Welcker, Rhein. Mus. N. F. i. 210, and a monograph by Kayser, P. Hordeonius Lollianus, Heidelberg, 1841. It is followed by the epigram:
ἀμφότερον ῥητῆρα δικῶν μελέτησί τ’ ἄριστον Λολλιανὸν πληθὺς εὐγενέων ἑτάρων. εἰ δ’ ἐθέλεις τίνες εἰσὶ δαήμεναι οὔνομα πατρὸς καὶ πάτρης, αὐτῶν τ’ οὔνομα δίσκος ἔχει.
Philostratus, V. S. 1. 25. 26, discredits the story that Polemo died at Smyrna, because there was no monument to him there; whereas if he had died there, “not one of the wonderful temples of that city would have been thought too great for his burial.”